Commission Regulation (EC) No 474/2002 of 15 March 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 20/2002 laying down detailed rules for implementing the specific supply arrangements for the outermost regions introduced by Council Regulations (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001 and (EC) No 1454/2001
Date: 2002-03-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, import licence, peripheral region, supply, supply balance sheet, tariff reduction

16.3.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 75/25

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 474/2002

of 15 March 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 20/2002 laying down detailed rules for implementing the specific
supply arrangements for the outermost regions introduced by Council Regulations (EC) No 1452/
2001, (EC) No 1453/2001 and (EC) No 1454/2001

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1452/2001 of 28
June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agricultural
products
the French overseas departments, amending
Directive 72/462/EEC and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 525/
77 and (EEC) No 3763/91 (Poseidom) (1), and in particular
Article 22,

for

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1453/2001 of 28
June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agricultural
products for the Azores and Madeira and repealing Regulation
(EEC) No 1600/92 (Poseima) (2), and in particular Article 34,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

For technical reasons and in order to conduct suitable
checks of
the specific supply arrangements for the
Azores and Madeira during the transitional period
expiring on 30 June 2002, the Portuguese authorities
have requested that special provisions should apply to
the presentation of licence applications and to their term
of validity. That request should be acceded to and the
presentation of licence applications should be limited to
the first five working days of each month and the term
of validity of licences should expire at the end of the
second month following that of issue. These new provi-
sions should apply from 1 April 2002.

A material error appears in the second indent of the
second paragraph of Article 30 of Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 20/2002 (3). As a result of that error,
difficulties could arise in implementing the specific
supply arrangements during the transitional period
allowed from 1 January to 30 June 2002 in the French
the Azores and Madeira. That
overseas departments,

error should be corrected so that the issuing of licences
can proceed properly during the transitional period.

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinions of all the Management
Committees concerned,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 20/2002 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The following paragraph is added to Article 29:

Until 30 June 2002 the following provisions shall

‘3.
apply in the Azores and Madeira:

(a) licence applications shall be submitted in the first five
working days of each month and the licences shall be
issued in the following five working days;

(b) licences shall be valid during the two months following

that of issue.’

2. The second indent of the second paragraph of Article 30 is

replaced by the following:

‘— Articles 4, 5, 7 and 9, Article 10(1) and Articles 11, 13,
14, 15, 26 and 27 shall not apply to the French over-
seas departments, the Azores and Madeira until 1 July
2002.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 1(1) shall apply from 1 April 2002.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 March 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 8, 11.1.2002, p. 1.